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ANOTHER CVP SCOOP:
Thomas Meshach already was facing theft charges from a year ago when he walked into The Aquarium at Route 4 — and onto Facebook pages around the country. Now he’s in custody again, charged with pup-napping.

Meshach, 24, and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Carmen Fucci, were wanted in connection with the Nov. 3 theft of 7½-week-old English bulldog, Blackie, from the Elmwood Park pet shop.

Blackie (The Aquarium at Route 4)

Meshack was charged with theft and Fucci with conspiracy by Elmwood Park police after police in Phillipsburg, where the couple lives, arrested them around 8 this morning.

Both were being held overnight on $5,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail.

Meshach ducked authorities for a couple months last year after failing to appear in court in Hunterdon County in connection with the theft of stainless steel tubing that authorities said he and an accomplice sold.

Finding him wasn’t as difficult this time, thanks to his girlfriend’s connections in Garfield,
CLIFFVIEW PILOT
has learned.

Thomas Meshach, Carmen Fucci

Meshach also is easy to spot — at 6-foot-2-inches tall, 280 pounds and sporting a huge tattoo of the map of New Jersey on his neck.

Fucci, meanwhile, is 5-foot-8 and 245 pounds, records show.

Both were graduated from Phillipsburg High School — he in 2007 and she two years later.